iZotope - Nectar 4 Advanced (Upgrade from Nectar 3, MPS 4/5, Komplete 14)

Let Your Vocals Shine

Achieve professional-quality vocals effortlessly with Nectar 4 Advanced.

This comprehensive vocal mixing tool provides an easy-to-use set of features for mixing, producing, and designing vocals.

Audiolens Referencing

Audiolens is compatible with Nectar 4 Advanced, allowing you to tone-match any vocal sound.

Separate the vocal from your reference with Audiolens and gain valuable information to create a starting point for your mix.

• Use Audiolens to reference any audio from any source and kickstart your vocal processing with Nectar's Vocal Assistant.
• Benefit from Audiolens' new separation technology to match the tone of any vocal, providing you with a target to aim for.
• Create a library of custom reference targets within Nectar's Vocal Assistant, making it convenient to access your references in any session.

Voices Module

Instant, easy vocal layers: the Voices module gives you the ability to create complicated layers for your vocal production without needing to learn voice-leading and harmonic motion.

Find a preset similar to your desired sound, then tweak it to your liking.

• Choose from a selection of 11 auto-harmonies to discover the perfect fit for your desired style.
• Engage MIDI mode to precisely control voices with the specific notes you need.
• Explore the robust editor to customize the number of voices and the chords they sing in your music.
• Adjust the range of your voices using the Direction control, allowing them to sing above or below your main vocal.
• Easily manage and manipulate each voice with the Mixer View, providing intuitive control over the soundstage of your vocal production.

Auto-Level Module

ALM (Auto Level Module) is an intelligent and transparent alternative to compressors.

Placed at the start of your signal chain, it acts like a recording engineer, effortlessly managing vocal levels.

ALM's Tame Noise feature distinguishes between sung and unsung vocal content, ensuring only tonal elements are leveled.

This gets rid of the need for manual volume automation, saving you time and effort.

ALM provides consistent volume levels without introducing unwanted artifacts like traditional compressors, giving you a clean and natural sound.

• Access the Auto-Leveler conveniently through the new mini-Module view, which provides essential vocal controls regardless of your location in Nectar's interface.
• The new Tame Noise feature actively adjusts non-sung vocal elements, ensuring consistent and balanced vocals.
• Fine-tune the Mix, Strength, and Range parameters of Auto-Level for precise control over your vocal signal.
• Employ Sidechain Mode to align the volume level of another track in your mix with your vocals.

13 Component Plugins

Nectar Advanced comes with a powerful suite of brand-new plugins.

Integrate the power of Nectar into your DAW template and build your own custom chains for every vocal in your production.

• Integrate 13 powerful vocal plugins into your vocal chain templates.
• Utilize Pitch Tracking and Dynamic EQ to achieve a balanced vocal that fits seamlessly into your mix.
• Employ Pitch, Backer, and Voices FX to create powerful layers and shifted effects in your vocal chain.
• Enhance your vocal production with Reverb, Delay, Saturation, and Dimension FX, adding character, depth, and movement.
• Take control of your dynamics with the De-esser, Compressor, Gate, Auto-Leveler, and Breath Control plugins, whether it's sung vocals or spoken material.

Backer Module

With the AI-powered Backer module, you can now create artificial background singers that sit behind your main vocal.

Pick from eight different styles or import your own acapella to further customize your sound.

Finish up a demo with different flavors of vocalists, creatively destroy ad-lib tracks, or create something new altogether.

*Only trained with English speaking languages.

• Shift your vocals to eight different styles to create different backup singers.
• Create your own style with a reference target.
• Blend your backup singers with Tone, Pitch, and Formant features so you can sit your tracks behind your lead vocal.
• Completely control shifting and style selection with automation, allowing you to create movement throughout your track.

Vocal Assistant

Vocal Assistant now provides a broad interface for making simple and helpful decisions for your vocal production without getting lost in the details of vocal mixing.

• Choose from various targets in your library to instantly achieve the desired sound.
• Import a custom reference track, and Vocal Assistant will match its tone.
• Make impactful decisions regarding EQ, intensity, and width to shape your vocal's sound.
• Seamlessly blend vocal effects like dimension, reverb, and delay.
• Utilize Vocal Assistant's page to layer, shift, and pitch your vocals for added movement and depth.

Celemony Melodyne 5 Essential

Nectar 4 offers an additional advantage with its built-in Pitch Correction Module by partnering with Celemony to include Melodyne 5 essential.

Melodyne is a GRAMMY-award winning pitch and time correction tool known for its precise and intuitive capabilities that are widely used in professional studios worldwide.

Perfect Balance

Nectar 4 Advanced provides two specialized 24-band Dynamic EQs specifically designed for vocals.

These Dynamic EQs offer transparent and clear processing, catering to both corrective and creative tasks.

They feature adaptive nodes for precise frequency shaping and pitch tracking.

With the Follow EQ mode, the Dynamic EQs dynamically track the pitch, eliminating the manual editing of resonant frequencies and harmonics.

This enables active control over the timbre and tone of the vocals.

Extras

Nectar 4 Breath Control Plugin

Reduces unwanted breaths without compromising audio quality.

iZotope Relay

Central hub for intelligent connection between your entire mix and iZotope plug-in collection.

Hundreds of Professionally-designed presets

Preconfigured settings for music and dialogue applications.

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System Requirements

Formats

• AU, AAX, VST3.
• All formats are 64-bit only

Operating Systems

• macOS Monterey (12.7), macOS Ventura (13.6)*
• *Supported on Intel Macs and Apple silicon (M-series) Macs (Native & Rosetta)

• Windows 10, Windows 11


DAWs/NLEs
Logic Pro 10.7, Live 11, Cubase 12, Pro Tools 2023, Studio One 6, FL Studio 21, REAPER 6, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Audition 2023, Davinci Resolve 18.5, Reason 12.5, Nuendo 12.